Loretta Beckwith has been identified as the woman whose body was found crumpled outside an Antioch high school today, said Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jimmy Lee.

The body was found next to a sport utility vehicle outside Live Oak High School this morning, police Sgt. Tammany Brooks said, and the cause of the 45-year-old Antioch woman’s death is considered suspicious.

Police responded just after 7 a.m. to the school, located at 1708 F St., where Beckwith was lying dead on the ground next to a brown SUV in the campus parking lot, Brooks said.

Her body showed “no obvious signs of trauma” and the cause of death remains under investigation, Brooks said. An autopsy is scheduled for Saturday morning, Lee said.

School officials said the woman was not a student at the school, and they do not believe she was a staff member.

The school remains open for classes today, said Brooks, although the area where the body was found has been cordoned off.

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